Transvestia

in making adequate distinctions between the several apparently similar behaviour patterns in the male, part- icularly those showing the pattern of wearing feminine clothing. It is hoped that the charts shown here will help all who read this article to arrive as a greater under- standing of themselves and their relationships to other groups. Even tho new readers may not agree with the re- lative positions shown on the charts, they should at least stimulate some constructive thinking. But they will have well deserved all the time and thought that went into dreaming them up if they save but one FP who mistakenly considers herself to be a TS from undergoing the destruc- tiveness and pain of sex-change surgery.

While there are, without a doubt, true transexuals, there are a lot of FPs who, not stopping or being unable analyse their own true position mistakenly consider themselves to be TSs. For these people it should be em- phasized that the reason that we are TVS or FPS to begin with resides in the fact of our maleness and thus our in- terest in and attraction toward the female and things feminine. To remove the source of that maleness is to remove the source of the very drive that made us TVs in the first place. Thus in the process of supposedly achieving the maximum of self satisfaction and self ex- pression through surgery, such an individual is actually sawing off the branch on which he sits--destroying the very motive force that made him what he is. It is a doubly self destructive act and ought to be left to those who are really male-seeking persons who have a female type sex drive and whose achievement of a female" type body serves to make more orthodox what they have been attempting in substitute ways all of their adult lives.

For TVs it seems to me that the goal is just what it always was-- learn to understand and then accept your- selves for what you are, without shame or guilt. The letters I get from those who have come to this point and who have then gone out and told others without shame and fear indicate that there is a whole new world in front of those who can achieve this end. It is a condition to be sought after because self understanding is a precondition to any real utilization of the total self. I hope that the foregoing charts and explanation will be a useful tool in accomplishing this. VIRGINIA....